Key Planning Concepts:

1. STAKEHOLDERS: Identify your most critical stakeholders.
2. OBJECTIVES: Identify the smart levels of their most critical value improvements.
3. STRATEGIES: Identify potential strategies for delivering planned value levels to stakeholders at the lowest cost and risk.
4. SMALL STEPS: Decompose strategies into suitably smaller deliverable increments.
5. DELIVER VALUE: Attempt to deliver measurable value to some stakeholders.
6. LEARN: Measure results and costs, then decide if you are on track or need to change something. Continue the process until all goals are reached.

The central capability of Planguage is that it can be used for any system of ‘product’ or ‘service’ at any level of abstraction or detail.

Planguage can express all results, improvements, values and qualities quantitatively.

Planguage can help you plan, estimate, and track the delivery of all costs and resources.

Planguage will help you keep numeric accounts of multiple critical values and corresponding multiple critical resources to manage value for money, i.e., the efficiency of planning, decision-making, and contracted result deliveries.

Planguage is extremely risk-conscious in every aspect of planning that might involve risk to your successful value delivery.

Planguage helps with planning values and costs and is used to manage practical implementation, learning, and feedback from plan applications.

Planguage will help you align and connect plans at many related levels of consideration, from top management to the most detailed level of planning you need.


Planguage enables you to measure planning quality and set a release threshold for plans.

Planguage has tools to automate plan specifications and to integrate your updated decisions and knowledge.

Value Planning

ISBN

• Tom Gilb

Description
Practical Tools for Clearer Management Communication – a detailed practical handbook for advanced management planning:
–Based on a powerful Planning Language ('Planguage') Proven internationally
–Effectively deals with management BS by quantifying and clarifying plan ideas
–Suitable for all types of planning, from products, services, projects, and organization

Principles of Software Engineering Management

ISBN
10: 02011 94462 / 13: 97802011 92469

• Tom Gilb

Description
This book is designed to help software engineers and project managers understand and solve the problems involved in developing complex software systems. It provides practical guidelines and tools for managing software engineering projects' technical and organizational aspects.

Part One explains the critical success factors for software and introduces methods, including:
Specification (using results-oriented quality and resource metrics
Finding and evaluating solutions.
Evolutionary planning and delivery inspection for quality and productivity.

Part Two provides detailed guidelines for implementing those methods, using a case study as an example throughout.

Part Three explains in detail how the methods can improve productivity, reliability, estimation, deadline pressure, and motivation. It concludes with a set of 'Software Engineering Templates' showing how to quantify software qualities and further case studies illustrating inspection experience and production planning.

Competitive Engineering

ISBN
0 7506 6507 6

• Tom Gilb

Description
A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage.

Proven by organizations worldwide:
Competitive Engineering documents Tom Gilb’s unique, ground-breaking approach to communicating management objectives and systems engineering requirements clearly and unambiguously.

Competitive Engineering is a revelation for anyone involved in management and risk control. Already used by thousands of managers and systems engineers worldwide, this handbook is for initiating, controlling, and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Competitive Engineering copes explicitly with the rapidly changing environment that is a reality for most of us today.

Elegant, comprehensive, and accessible, the Competitive Engineering methodology provides a practical set of tools and techniques that enable readers to effectively design, manage, and deliver results in any complex organization – in engineering, industry, systems engineering, software, IT, the service sector, and beyond.

Benefits:
Many organizations, including HP, Intel, CitiGroup, IBM, Nokia, and the US Department of Defense, have used and proven it.

Detailed, practical, and innovative coverage of key subjects, including requirements specification, design evaluation, specification quality control, and evolutionary project management.

A complete, proven, and meaningful ‘end-to-end’ process for specifying, evaluating, managing, and delivering high-quality solutions.

Rich in detail and comprehensive in scope, with thought-provoking ideas on every page.

This stuff works:
❛ Competitive Engineering contains powerful tools that are both practical and simple—a rare combination. Over the last decade, I have applied Tom Gilb’s tools in various settings, including product development, service delivery, manufacturing, site construction, IT, eBusiness, quality, marketing, and management, on projects of various sizes. Competitive Engineering is based on decades of practical experience, feedback, and improvement, and it shows. ❜

Erik Simmons
Intel Corporation
Requirements Engineering Practice Lead
Corporate Quality Network

Evolutionary Project Management & Product Development

ISBN

• Kai Gilb

Description
How people successfully manage projects and product delivery to deliver stakeholder values and product qualities competitively, early, & predictably – Requirements, Project Planning, Design, and Execution.